Introducing
Tansel TurgutAbout 240 years
ago an automated wonder created by Wolfgang von Kempelen toured Europe
defeating all challengers at chess. This automaton, known as "the
Turk" was a fake, but Turgut Tansel is the real thing.

Turgut Tansel,
originally from Turkey, specializes in Interventional Cardiology and practices
in Decatur, Illinois. Turgut is an ICCF Grandmaster and is currently
Turkey's only CC GM, though he has lived in the United States now for eighteen
years.

Tansel's ideas
about computer chess in cc play are quite different from most. As in
international play computer assistance is legal, running into strong computers
is quite common. Tansel's idea of how to play against these computers is
that the best way to beat these programs is to make sacrifices. In the
current World Championship Final he made exchange sacrifices getting one Pawn
or less in return in no less than six games.

Tansel's view of
the future of top-level CC play is that in order to win, dynamic double-edged
positions with positional sacrifices will be the route to victory. He
notes that it is becoming very difficult to win games against strong
computers. In order to win such a game, you have to beat the computer
plus a strong human who knows when to quit following the computer, which is
very difficult.GAME OF THE MONTH
Tansel sent in a
game which he notes is very difficult for computers to understand. White
sacrifices an exchange for no Pawns in a symmetrical position and continues as
if nothing happens (h3, Kh2, etc. - "little moves"). The computers are
not able to understand this game. Even Rybka could not save it, he notes.

QUEEN GAMBIT
DECLINED (D43)White: Tansel
Turgut (2610)Black: Hagen
Tiemann (2480)24th World
Championship1.d4
d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 Be7 7.e3 0-0 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5
10.Bd3 Bb7 11.0-0 Nbd7 12.Rc1 Rc8 13.Qe2 b4 14.Na4 Qa5
All
this has been seen fairly often. The root game is Moehring-Schindler,
Zittau 1955, which continued with the most common reply for White of 15. b3
with Black doing fairly well against it. 15.Bxf6!?
This
is a new idea. Tiemann gained a draw against the 13th World Champion
Mikhail Umansky after 18. Nc5 Bxc5 16. dxc5 Nxc5 17. Bxf6 Nxd3 18. Qxd3 gxf6
19. Qd4 c5 20. Qxf6 Bxf3 21. Qxf3 Qxa2 with rough equality after 22. Qf6 15...Bxf6
16.Nc5 Nxc5
There
are even chances after 17. dxc5 Rfd8 18. Rfd1 Qxa2. 17.Rxc5
Qb6
The
Queen has problems after 17...Qxb2 18. Bc4 b3 19. Nd2 Qxb2 20. Rb1 Qa3
21. Nxb3 18.Rfc1
Be719.Ne5!?
It
takes about 2600+ rating points to make a move like this. As Turgut
noted, White gets little for the exchange -- but he keeps what he's got, mainly
he does not have to retreat with R5c2 or c4. After 19. R5c4 Rfd8, Black stands
slightly better. 19...Bxc5
20.Rxc5 Rcd8 21.Bc4
White
may be behind in material off the board, but on the board all his pieces are
working better than their Black counterparts -- and the Knight on e5 is a match
for the Rook on f8. 21...Rd6
22.f4 Qd8 23.Qf2 Qc8 24.Qg3 Qd8 25.h3
One
of the "little moves" Turgut refers to, but with the Black Queen
wandering aimlessly about the move is not without a sharp edge, preparing the
possibility of a kingside Pawn assault and a safe haven for the White King on
h2. 25...a6
Shredder
10 evaluates this as slightly better for Black, but recommends 25...a5. As
that happens next, it apparently makes little difference.26.b3
a5 27.Kh2 Ba8
Shredder
now finds the position equal, even playing the recommended 27...Ba8. 28.Ng4
Kh7
And
now Shredder likes 29. f5!? exf5 30. Rxf5 which it evaluates as equal, but
Tansel has his own idea. 29.Bd3+
f5 30.Ne5 Rf6 31.Bc4 Bb7 32.Qh4
And
finally Shredder begins to change its evaluation of the position to favor
White. What is Black to do ? After 32...Kg8 33. Qh5 Kf8 34. g4!
Black will be squeezed to death on the kingside.
32...Rf8
33.Qxd8 Rdxd8 34.Bxe6 Rd6 35.Bc4 Ra8 36.g4 1-0

The
ending is lost as the White Pawn mass from d4 to g4 will soon overwhelm Black's
passive pieces. A mysterious game ? a new anti-computer
strategy? a positional masterpiece ? The reader will have to
decide.

Trophy Quad
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Stockman 08Q17 5 ½-½POSTAL
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The following
game is a sharp struggle - the draw at the end happens after 37. Qb8+ Kh7 38.
Nxd5 Ng4+ 39. Kh1 Qe1+ 40. Bg1 Nf2+ 41. Kh2 Ng4+ 42. Kh1 =

BENONI
GAME (A65)

OBITUARY:
Charles G. Hall,
Jr. of South Yarmouth, MA died at age 58. Charles was tormented by
severe depression for years causing him to forfeit many games. He kept
fighting. Chess gave him an escape, but ultimately the gloom was too
deep.

BIRD'S
OPENING (A02)

Quote: My advice, which has always worked for
me, is: never get involved in unfriendly or even rude arguments with your
opponents! If any discussion is getting unpleasant, then cut back the
discussion, or drop it completely. Usually it does not even get that far,
as one can tell early on which way the wind is blowing. == Kon Grivainis19th U.S.
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